Generating dynamic Attachments between bpel process activities

Dear Experts,
Please suggest me that how to handle dynamic attachments in BPEL process with JDeveloper.
The requirement was need to send an attachment between activities in same BPEL process
and not sending an attachment through mail.
For Instance consider a scenario "Need to issue an appointment order(Activity3) for the candidate if he successfully completed his assigned task(Activity1) and selected(Activity2)".
Thanks ,
Rajesh
Edited by: Rajesh A on Mar 9, 2009 11:30 AM

Hi Rajesh,
That's a nice requirement without using the Notification services to send the attachments.
However, this can be achieved using the workflow service tasks as mentioned in : http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/integrate.1013/b28981/workflow.htm#BABCAIEF
Using this you can assign, play with attachments via tasks. Hope this helps to some extent!
Regards
Anirudh Pucha

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